Pierre-mikael Legris
CTO at Health Data Safe
Morges, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-Mikael Legris is a resilient entrepreneur and technology leader with 14 years of experience building privacy-first digital health platforms and data governance solutions. As co-founder and long-time CEO/CTO of Pryv, he designed a privacy-compliant personal health data engine that reached product-market fit across eight countries, drove profitable growth and raised CHF 4.5M. Now CTO of the Health Data Safe Foundation, he focuses on digital ethics, data sovereignty and models that treat health data as a societal commons. His career blends hands-on engineering, fundraising, and board-level strategy, plus practical open-source contributions and a talent for turning regulatory complexity into usable product features. Surviving a six-year battle with leukemia, he channels personal resilience into patient-centered innovation and humanistic management practices. Based in Morges, Switzerland and EPFL-trained, he pairs deep technical chops with a mission-driven approach to trustworthy digital health.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Lycée Français de San-FransiscoMaster Computer Engineering, Master Computer Engineering at EPFL
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (120)
traits10
authentication9
phonetics9
otpauth9
localhost9
google-authenticator9
endpoint9
management8
javascript8
middleware8
text-files8
loopback8
recovery8
one-time8
one-time-password8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pryv/lib-js
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Pryv's Javascript library
Contributions:150 commits, 27 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 10 months
javascripttypescriptjavascript-librarypryv
pryv/dev-site
May 2015 - Mar 2025
Pryv developers (API) website
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 11 months
apipryvreference
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